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twittgroups Network

Zigtag's group option could be useful for creating professional learning networks. The group option could also be useful for students that are working in groups on research projects.

This network is for educators who are interested in educational podcasting and the Podstock conference May 1st and 2nd in Wichita Kansas.

Social media - Pownce, Twitter, Facebook, Social network service, Second Life - Visual Wikipedia

By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO - "What are you doing?" That question is the rocket fuel for Twitter - a hot social-network service that lets you tell people what you are up to at any given moment of the day - via cellphone, instant messenger, or the Web. Never heard of it, you say?

An initiative to build local communities of support that will foster ongoing collaborations among volunteers, students and educators. Volunteers, university students, scientists, engineers, other STEM professionals and, more broadly, members of the community are working together with educators and students to bring discovery-based science experiences to students in grades K-12. When an educator posts a project, our system will help them get the resources needed to bring that project to fruition.

Webcasting site where you can manage live questions, leveraging social networks, etc.

Discusses Spymaster and the potential for networked role playing games in education

Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire framse, UML and network charts..... and it's FREE

A dozen activities are presented for using an online education technology tool to engage students in classroom activities to develop a better understanding of concepts.

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In online public spaces, interactions are public-by-default, private-through-effort, the exact opposite of what we experience offline.  There is no equivalent to the cafe where you can have a private conversation in public with a close friend without thinking about who might overhear. Your online conversations are easily overheard.  And they're often persistent, searchable, and easily spreadable. Online, we have to put effort into limiting how far information flows. We have to consciously act to curb visibility.  This runs counter to every experience we've ever had in unmediated environments.  When people participate online, they don't choose what to publicize.  They choose what to limit others from seeing.  Offline, it takes effort to get something to be seen.  Online, it takes effort for things to NOT be seen.  This is why it appears that more is public.  Because there's a lot of content out there that people don't care enough about to lock down.  I hear this from teens all the time.  "Public by default, privacy when necessary."  Teens turn to private messages or texting or other forms of communication for intimate interactions, but they don't care enough about certain information to put the effort into locking it down.  But this isn't because they don't care about privacy.  This is because they don't think that what they're saying really matters all that much to anyone.  Just like you don't care that your small talk during the conference breaks are overheard by anyone.  Of course, teens aren't aware of how their interactions in aggregate can be used to make serious assumptions about who they are, who they know, and what they might like in terms of advertising.  Just like you don't calculate who to talk to in the halls based on how a surveillance algorithm might interpret your social network.    

"Twitterfall is a Twitter client specialising in real-time tweet searches. New tweets fall into the page. Twitterfall has a huge feature list and there are many actions that can't be done on other clients."

Mark Zuckerberg talks about the role of the social network in the future, i wonder the role in the Teaching and Learning process.